tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1795361594859467143.post1761202742252718235..comments2015-12-08T10:40:51.041-05:00Comments on The Only Number: His Thoughts: Media in FootballSamantha Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11868308945410711930noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1795361594859467143.post-6061477437919910462009-09-25T22:39:27.139-04:002009-09-25T22:39:27.139-04:00alaldinho: ..i think my point was lost both you an...alaldinho: ..i think my point was lost both you and 1st mr anonymous. I am too young to remember previous italian scandals, I am however old enough to do a simple compare and contrast. The point i&#39;m making is that every weekend in EVERY league there will be questionable calls, or 50-50 calls that went the way of the &#39;big team&#39;. However only for ONE league...is this regular occurrence highlighted as a conspiracy theory. it&#39;s about the balance that the media should aim to portray. tell the good and the bad..not just bad. in england: man utd win thrilling encounter with a somewhat dubious call<br />in italy: adriano hands inter contreversial victory in derby<br /><br />see the difference?Dr3https://www.blogger.com/profile/01237185159541114196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1795361594859467143.post-77949341313490814622009-09-24T20:12:00.341-04:002009-09-24T20:12:00.341-04:00aye dre like ya startin to get comments man. keep ...aye dre like ya startin to get comments man. keep it upAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1795361594859467143.post-72201402595574600962009-09-22T08:46:19.868-04:002009-09-22T08:46:19.868-04:00Take a read:
http://www.goal.com/en/news/1717/edit...Take a read:<br />http://www.goal.com/en/news/1717/editorial/2009/09/20/1512823/manchester-derby-comment-premier-league-refs-in-a-league-ofalaldinhohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13389097352462512175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1795361594859467143.post-20051741579424424092009-09-22T00:35:14.595-04:002009-09-22T00:35:14.595-04:00This is an interesting point of view. However the ...This is an interesting point of view. However the English media cannot be blamed for the fall from grace of Italian football. Firstly I would just like to make a few points. <br />Italian football has always been corrupt. There were two incidents of betting/match fixing scandals in Italian football in the 1980’s known as Totonero 1980 and Totonero 1986. These scandals saw Milan, Lazio, Bologna, and Udinese among others being relegated and may players, Paolo Rossi Italy’s 1982 World Cup hero implicated as well. It seems that Italian team owners/players/and Italian in general haven’t learned as exactly 20 years later Calcipoli was revealed. At the risk of being a negative Nelly I predict that there will be another scandal before the beginning of the 2030’s. The paisans of the peninsula cannot help it. It is in their nature.<br />It is also interesting that you noted that the rise of the Premier league as Europe’s best league occurred at the same time as Calciopoli. I won’t go into whether they were related or mutual exclusive. Maybe you are too young to remember but in the 1980’s Liverpool reached two European cup finals after a period of dominance by English football which saw an English team win six straight finals. The subsequent ban of 5 years of all English teams (6 for Liverpool) after the Heysel stadium disaster saw AC Milan winning two straight European Cups at the end of the decade. This was then followed by a decade of dominance by Italian teams in the revamped Champions League, with Milan and Juventus reaching the finals on multiple occasions and winning a few of them. Italian teams also dominated the Uefa Cup and was unquestionably the best league in the world.<br />Italian football is the root of its own downfall. Dilapidated stadiums, poor crowd attendance, racism spewed at their own players, and scandals take away from the beauty of its football. The media can’t be blamed, as with the fall of the Italian game came the rise of the Spanish game not the English: “La Liga de Estrella - the league of the stars” was how the Spanish game was known from 2000 to 2004-ish when it was the best league. The English game prospered on its own strength. They bought the majority of the best players, were dominant in Europe and marketed their brand as the best. <br />If anti-English is your calling, have no fear they won’t be the best forever I predict the rise of La Liga once again, probably in the 2010’s, but Serie A is a long way from catching these two. They have too many advantages including billionaire owners (hence higher wages) in England and favorable tax laws in Spain. Their images also do not need repairing unlike Serie A (a state where English football once was) and the best players in the world are gravitating towards those leagues. Let the football stay beautiful though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com